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Lee County finance committee flags $2 million shortfall after case management grant loss
Summary
Finance committee members said Lee County will absorb a roughly $2 million cost for a case management program after failing to secure a grant; the county will spread the expense across future budgets and has asked its contractor to help with financing terms.
Finance Committee Chair Jim Scheelein told the executive committee that Lee County did not receive a case management grant and will need to cover roughly $2 million of costs that had been expected to be grant-funded.
Scheelein said the amount represents about $2,000,000 on a $9,000,000 capital budget and will tighten the county's budget for the next several fiscal years. He said the committee discussed spreading the cost over several years and is seeking cooperation from the contracted vendor to ease the near-term burden.
Reed (staff) reported that expenses are tracking slightly below budget but that revenues are also lower than projected, leaving a wash. Scheelein said the county is "not going to sugarcoat it" and that the loss of the grant is a "big hit." The county will seek to work with the company identified in the transcript as "Tyler, the company that we've contracted with," to explore payment terms.
The finance committee also discussed final cleanup of ARPA grants as housekeeping; no board-level action on the case management funding was adopted at this meeting.
